Echo Arcadia : Indie

A performance-based video focused centered around a prop; a makeshift light box comprised of a wooden frame, a few sheets of diffusion and a stack of light behind it. Basically, any light used in the video would come from this primary source and and shot on a relatively flat surface, I would have the camera on a dolly, capturing the various shots, giving it a flow and sense of movement that the totally static set did not provide. The shooting was helped, certainly in filming the close ups by the quality the light box produced. Originally, the idea was to involve colour casts being projected behind the screen as an added element. But as it developed so did the glitching elements that had become the visual trademark of the visual accompaniments to the release of this album. It was key that at point, I add those elements into the video to pull it all together.

The sole story element, that involved footage of a paper airplane flying over my own stock footage was shot against a green screen. The footage was shot again after being assembled, playing on a TV using an old PAL video camcorder. That footage was then looped through the same TV and shot in full HD on a DSLR playing from the same camcorder. Using the playback controls and knowing how digital tapes create artifacting when wound back or forth whilst playing, is what you see being created in real time. This was the same artifacting that was layered on top of the assembled band footage.